But less people means less services

Yeah, since you're not being a dick, I have to agree. Nobody remotely objective says the federal government seems overstaffed, kinda the opposite, and Carney seems to really believe in AI as magic pixie dust. They're probably going to have to scale back their plans once rubber hits the road, and we'll either get a bigger deficit or new taxes.

What they didn't cut was everything else. My teeth are still covered, for example. That would not be true of a Conservative budget, which would also cut back things that have been around for decades rather than years, like the CBC.

When I said you were speaking like a liberal it was in response to “tricking” Alberta into increasing the carbon tax. The only time I’ve seen the lead buried that deeply is in LPC press material and from its surrogates. Because...

Hey, some of what you're saying sounds like an NDP or Green press release. And I'm pretty sure "everyone won" is the current Liberal line, not "we suckered somebody".

Sure, oil companies win on certain things. They also have to pay a higher carbon tax, which is a big win for the climate. We'll see if anything comes from Pathways, which would mostly be a win for the climate. Danielle Smith just loses.

Describing Carney as moving Canada toward the centre is absurd, considering what he’s actually doing.

Trudeau was the first or second most left-wing PM ever. What's to the right of the left?

All of Trudeaus trade-offs and pet projects are gone

The water treatment project is still underway if delayed again; the tree planting will stop at the original billion but it's not gone. The carbon tax is only gone for consumers. And, like mentioned, dental/pharma care are still around, although that was an NDP policy.